Pencil-holder.



PATENTED MAR. 24., 1903.. H. H. WEAVER. PENCIL HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 13 1901.

N0 MODEL.

Weaver; 5mm:

*W Wweowo UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY HOLLIS WEAVER, OF GREENTOWN, INDIANA.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,? 65, dated March 24, 1903.

Application filed July 13, 190i.

f0 all whom it may concern:

Be itkn own that LHENRY I-IoLLIs WEAVER, a citizen of the United States, residing-at Greentown, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Pencil-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a pencil attachment, and has for its object to produce from a single piece of rubber an eraser, a device for holding a pencil in the pocket, and means for retaining the attachment on the pencil.

With this end in view the invention resides in the construction and arrangementof parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and defined in the appended claim.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional View of a pocket, showing therein a pencil equipped with my attachment. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation showing a portion of a pencil with my attachment complete, and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the attachment.

Like numerals of reference are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the views.

The attachment is formed of rubber of comparatively soft grade-such, for instance, as is employed in the manufacture of erasersand comprises a cylindrical body portion 1, interiorly and exteriorly smooth and of uniform internal diameter. This cylindrical body portion is designed to fit snugly upon the end of a pencil 4:, and its bore or central opening 2 is closed at one end bya comparatively thick body of rubber integral with the cylinder and constituting an eraser extending, as usual, beyond the end of the pencil. At the end of the cylindrical body portion 1, opposite the eraser 5, is formed an annular outwardly-flaring flange 3, which is comparatively thin and sufficiently-flexible to oppose only slight resistance to the insertion of the pencil in the pocket.

Serial No. 68,196. (No model.)

The flange 3 decreases in thickness toward its outer edge from its juncture with the body portion of the attachment and is sufficiently flexible to buckle or turn back, as shown in Fig. 1, to oppose only such resistance to the withdrawal of the pencil as is necessary to prevent the same from falling from the pocket when the latter assumes an inverted position.

It should be particularly noted that the entire attachment is formed of a single piece of rubber comprising a cylinder frictionally retained on the pencil and formed at one end with a thick body of rubber constituting an eraser closing the end of'the cylinder and at its opposite end with a thin flexible annular flange or skirt opposing only slight resistance to the withdrawal of the pencil from the pocket. It should also be noted that the exterior surface of the cylindrical portion of the attachment is perfectly smooth, so that the only resistance opposed by the device to the withdrawal of the pencil from the pocket is produced by the flexible flange or skirt 3 in the manner stated.

While the precise form shown in the drawings is thought to be preferable, I wish to be understood asreserving the right to effect such variations of the illustrated structure as may be properly embraced within the scope of the protection prayed.

What I claim is A pencil attachment comprising a rubber cylinder internally and externally smooth, formed with a comparatively thick eraser closing it at one end and with a thin elastic annular flange flaring from its opposite end.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. 7

HENRY HOLLIS WEAVER.

Witnesses:

H. E. ASH, F. R. HILL. 

